Fig. 3
From: Trends in intellectual property rights protection for medical cannabis and related products
Patent filing trend in the field of downstream medical cannabis technologies. a Graphical depiction of the number of patents concerning downstream medical cannabis technologies filed from 2001 to 2020. b Graphical depiction of the number of patents that were granted through 2001–2020. The figures were generated using “Insights,” an analytic tool by PatSnap (https://www.patsnap.com). For more information on the PatSnap software operations, see the “Materials and methods” section